Microsoft Copilot Designer Reportedly Generated Inappropriate AI Images
Mar 6, 2024
An incident involving Microsoft's Copilot Designer, an AI image generator, has been reported to produce content that includes sex, violence,...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citation Failure Files™AI-Generated Images of Trump with Black Voters Spread as Disinformation Before U.S. Primary Elections
Mar 4, 2024
In the lead-up to U.S. primary elections, deepfakes emerged as a tool for political disinformation when supporters of Donald Trump shared AI...
Read moreDeepfake ID Sales Allegedly Persist as OnlyFake Reportedly Relaunches with New Fraud Tools
Mar 1, 2024
AI-generated fake ID site OnlyFake has relaunched, posing a challenge to biometric verification systems. Despite an initial takedown, the pl...
Read moreRussia-Linked AI CopyCop Site Identified as Modifying and Producing at Least 19,000 Deceptive Reports
Mar 1, 2024
Early March 2024 marked the emergence of a network, CopyCop, publishing biased and misleading news articles using AI. These manipulated stor...
Read moreOver 400 Purportedly AI-Driven Scams Reportedly Led to $8M Loss for Australians in 2023
Mar 1, 2024
In the year 2023, Australian citizens suffered financial losses exceeding $8 million due to reported scams that utilized AI-generated deepfa...
Read moreFake AI-Generated Law Firms Sent Fake DMCA Notices to Increase SEO
Mar 1, 2024
In March 2024, a deceptive practice involving AI emerged when fake law firms using generated identities sent fraudulent DMCA takedown notice...
Read moreCharacter.ai Chatbot Allegedly Influenced Teen User Toward Suicide Amid Claims of Missing Guardrails
Feb 28, 2024
A 14-year-old, Sewell Setzer III, tragically died by suicide following interactions with Character.ai's chatbot. The bot, portraying a ficti...
Read moreSnapchat's Algorithm Alleged to Link Minor with Sex Offenders
Feb 22, 2024
A court decision found Snapchat not responsible under Section 230, despite its algorithm repeatedly connecting a minor with convicted sex of...
Read moreSeeming Pattern of Gemini Bias and Sociotechnical Training Failures Harm Google's Reputation
Feb 21, 2024
Google's chatbot, Gemini, faced numerous reported bias issues upon release, resulting in problematic outputs such as racial inaccuracies, po...
Read moreNonconsensual Deepfake Porn of Bobbi Althoff Spreads Rapidly on X
Feb 20, 2024
The rapid virality of nonconsensual deepfake pornography featuring Bobbi Althoff, initially with around 178,000 views, surged to a staggerin...
Read moreChatGPT Glitch Disrupts User Interactions with Nonsensical Outputs
Feb 20, 2024
ChatGPT encountered a language processing bug, generating nonsensical outputs that disrupted user interactions, leading to concerns about th...
Read moreDeepfakes Circulating and Eroding Electoral Integrity in the Lead-up to 2024 South Korean legislative election
Feb 19, 2024
As Korea approaches its parliamentary elections in 2024, over 129 deepfake videos and images have been reported and found to violate new ele...
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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.